Lyrid meteor shower has returned to the night sky over Connecticut, peaking on the night of April 21 into the 22nd with roughly 10 to 20 meteors per hour. What is a meteor shower? Meteor showers occur ...

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...

The Lyrid meteor shower - the second meteor shower on the calendar this year - runs through April 26, peaking on the night of ...

A newly discovered comet, called C/2025 F2 (SWAN), may have disintegrated. But the remnants are still visible.

The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has officially discovered 5000 comets. Comet number 5000 was spotted ...

In anticipation of the upcoming 35th anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, ESA/Hubble is continuing the celebrations with a new view of the Eagle Nebula. This vast stellar nursery ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at potential first signs of life on another world, an FDA greenlight for ...

Both meteor showers can be seen from the northern hemisphere, but the Eta Aquarids are most impressive to stargazers in the ...

A new research paper in the Astrophysical Journal suggests that Cambridge scientists have managed to find emissions from bacteria or other tiny organisms in space, but it doesn't confirm alien life.

A dazzling celestial display will light up the night sky in the form of the first meteor shower in three months.The Lyrid ...

Today's rather aquatic-themed NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the ...

The comet brightened pretty quickly, and it now has a magnitude of +7.8 – not bright enough for our own eyes, but visible ...